Hacker News: gumby271

New comment by gumby271 in "Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast?"

gumby271 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:21:08 +0000

Truly the most accurate username I've encountered here.

New comment by gumby271 in "Om Malik has died"

gumby271 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:19:23 +0000

Who's benefiting from SF homelessness?

New comment by gumby271 in "Swift Package Index joins Apple"

gumby271 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:53:12 +0000

I think I can pay for access to the Apple Weather api, which is neither the DarkSky api, nor the DarkSky app that was killed by Apple.

New comment by gumby271 in "Swift Package Index joins Apple"

gumby271 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:19:21 +0000

From what I've heard, it sounds like it's not nearly as good or simple an experience as DarkSky was. But as an Android user I wouldn't know, DarkSky was just killed by Apple for everyone but Apple customers when they merged it in.

New comment by gumby271 in "Silent Android feature scans photos for 'sensitive content' – how to uninstall"

gumby271 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:40:27 +0000

So just to be clear, Safety Core is a set of models for detecting sensitive content that other apps can hook into to add warning when someone sends you something dirty. It's updated via the Play Store as a system app, so users are seeing it and freaking out. As far as I can tell, this is no different from the sensitive content warnings that Apple has in iOS.

What's wild is that when Apple does it, it's heralded as a great thing for user security, it's also a feature you have no choice but to have installed in the OS (though can be disabled, exactly like Google's version). When Google does it, but distributes it slightly differently, we get articles like this with people shitting themselves and telling users how to disable system apps. I get that Google doesn't have the trust that Apple does, but man the lack of nuance from a tech blog is so disappointing.

New comment by gumby271 in "Siri AI"

gumby271 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:52:16 +0000

Just make a new phone OS lol, problem solved.

New comment by gumby271 in "Siri AI"

gumby271 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:48:56 +0000

Not directly, but they control the most popular portal to the open Internet with chromium to shape ad delivery, and (depending on how dramatic you want to be) the shape of reality presented to their users based on their AI models. Not directly profitable, but damn that's a scary level of power.

New comment by gumby271 in "Siri AI"

gumby271 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:40:45 +0000

Just because I bought an Apple product doesn't mean I made the choice to trust them globally across everything I do on my device, when did this become a binary that the hardware vendor must also be the only trusted software and service vendor? I like my MacBook because I trusted Apple to build great hardware, a pretty okay os, and services I don't give a shit about. I won't buy an iPhone because Apple has removed the ability to distinguish between those things on that platform.

Surely there's something better we can do than say "the average user is a dumbfuck better consolidate all control with Apple".

New comment by gumby271 in "Siri AI"

gumby271 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:05:39 +0000

Could the restriction not be the device owner choosing to use it? If some rando vibe coded an app and the os told me all the things it can access, I'd probably want to trust the developer before installing it. Why do I need to beg Apple's permission to use software better than their first party offering?

New comment by gumby271 in "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model"

gumby271 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:11:31 +0000

Depends on the cost of Godzilla insurance, which currently is quite low. Lock in now!

New comment by gumby271 in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

gumby271 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:32:27 +0000

In fact, Apple would construe themselves as a MITM, pretty explicitly.

New comment by gumby271 in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

gumby271 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:28:00 +0000

Two things can be true, you can choose to install software from a curated store, policed by an entity you trust to do that. I can install whatever trash I want from the internet and risk my own security doing so. These two things aren't in conflict and could be enabled with a change in policy from Apple.

Worried about grandma installing shady apps? Enable parental controls on her phone.

New comment by gumby271 in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

gumby271 — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:47:26 +0000

I don't know if there's an iOS equivalent, but Buzzkill on Android is really great for this. I set up filters to hide all the stupid Amazon ad notifications.

New comment by gumby271 in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

gumby271 — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:38:51 +0000

If you're on Android, I'll always recommend Buzzkill to add very granular rules for notification filtering. I set up all kinds of filters just for the Amazon app.

On iOS I assume you're sol, that notification system is unhinged to my eyes.

New comment by gumby271 in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

gumby271 — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:35:19 +0000

Am I understanding correctly that iOS notifications have to go over apns unless on the same local network as the HA server? I do appreciate that android makes this possible for ha and signal (and others) in all cases, it should be up to the user to choose centralizing the connection vs. slightly worse battery life.

New comment by gumby271 in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

gumby271 — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:31:11 +0000

Yeah I'm disappointed this isn't pointed out in the opening paragraph. It's fair to critique Google for convincing devs that fcm is the only option, and obviously iOS is designed for Apple to do whatever they want, regardless of the owner's wishes, but Android does have other, viable, options. iOS and Android aren't equally bad here.

New comment by gumby271 in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

gumby271 — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:05:19 +0000

I think that's what the Notification Organizer on Android (maybe Pixel exclusive, not sure) does. It's sorting notifications into broad categories using AI and groups them in the notification shade.

New comment by gumby271 in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"

gumby271 — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:19:10 +0000

Or perhaps a user id or fingerprint to an individual. We added that to printers long ago, this would easily enable that for every photo and image you generate too.

New comment by gumby271 in "CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub"

gumby271 — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:54:37 +0000

And yet, here we are.

New comment by gumby271 in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

gumby271 — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:25:10 +0000

This one was shocking to me too. I get the argument around the upside down trackpad, but inverting the mouse wheel with no built in open is insane. I also have a mystery app who's only just is to correct this stupid behavior.